What I find pretty interesting is that some people consider first 2-3 books as the most surreal of them all and actually Stephen king admitted himself that he had been using psychedelic drugs (as far as I remember LSD and Mescaline) and drinking heavily while writing those books.

While I have to say that I don’t approve of using drugs “for artistic reasons”, the outcome in this case was pretty good 😛
And I wasn’t really surprised to find out these things either. It actually explains a lot 😛